Sentence examples for even a mite from inspiring English sources

(Editor's Note: Powerful stuff, but we worry that literal-minded readers just might think that you've become jaded, even a mite surly — "ugly American," so to speak. How about "We never stop marvelling at the locals' passion for fine food" and leave it at that?) Talk about a backwater!

But isn't it a little presumptuous, perhaps even a mite sexist, to suppose we already know the minds of Justices Sotomayor and Kagan, and that nothing anyone might write or say from now through the time the question is considered by the Supreme Court could change them?

SOUTH CAROLINA is a rather traditional, male-minded place, with a particularly ornery legislature, but even some conservatives are a mite embarrassed by the odd double chalked up by the state's House Judiciary Committee last week.

Even better, though in truth a mite tawdry, was a kiss that traveled past Mr. Bocca's mouth and out to the audience during the dancers' bow after the pas de deux.

Some have a provocative spiciness, while others are a mite hoppy, or even a bit sour.

Acted by a trio of burgeoning young movie-stars, it keeps one pleasurably entertained even if its concerns might seem a mite parochial for the average British audience.

According to Guardian theatre critic Michael Billington, "it keeps one pleasurably entertained, even if its concerns might seem a mite parochial for the average British audience".

Climate change, habitat destruction, a paralysing virus, fungal infection and even a plague of parasitic mites have all been proposed.

Judging from my workshops over the years, such strong emotional impulses are quite widespread -- even if this fellow's reactions were a mite extreme.

Nice work, but a mite disappointing in an evening focused on the future of the art.

Even for the fair's abnormally confident organizers, that claim seems a mite overweening.